The Tema Regional Police Command has denied claims that #FixTheCountry crooner, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, donated food to his former inmates at the Ashaiman Police Station.
According to Barker-Vormawor, he was at the Ashaiman police station to donate food, items, and toiletries to his former colleagues but he was denied access by the Police, due to an order from above.
Speaking to the press over the weekend, he said he had published his intention to visit the inmates, and therefore, the claim by the Police that they are not aware of his coming, is false.
In a press statement signed by Head of Public Affairs in Tema, Chief Inspector Stella Dede Dzakpasu, the police revealed that Mr. Vormawor was informed through his lawyers that initiative was against Police Standard Operating Procedure (SoP), therefore, was advised to refrain from carrying out the said donation
According to the police, despite the notice given him, he showed up at the Police Station in the company of some other individuals and a musical band with the obvious intention still of making the donation and creating unnecessary drama.
The activist’s action, the police stated, left them in a state of dilemma and refused him the opportunity.
“This made him and his team loiter the station for a while amidst noise making and inconveniencing other persons at the station, he and his group dispersed” the Police stated.
For the above reasons, the Police has debunked reports that the activist made the said donation and was later called to come back for them.
The police say it is not aware of the motives behind Mr. Barker- Vormawor’s recent action as “the feeding of suspects in custody is hardly an enterprise he can sustain even for more than a day.”
The police have urged the public to disregard such a report because the feeding of persons in custody is the responsibility of the government and it is the responsibility that is discharged according to the law and laid down procedures.
“However, due to our cultural sensitivities and arrangement, families of suspects are usually allowed to provide food to them from time to time,” it added.
